Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

You toss that greasy pizza box into the recycling bin. You feel good about it. You're helping the planet, right? Well, here's ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

A new bill cosponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, could give Washingtonians refunds for glass and plastic, to boost recycling. OLYMPIA — In another effort to boost recycling in Washington, a ...

HydraPak has expanded a successful pilot that redirects harder-to-recycle plastics toward potential reuse, but reaching viable scale remains a work in progress. In 2024, the company piloted its ‘RePak ...

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NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Report on how AI is redefining market landscape - The Global Recycle for Plastic Bottle Market size is estimated to grow by USD 4.89 billion from 2024-2028, ...

The improvement is an effort to shore up returns on beverage containers with 10-cent deposits, which took a big nosedive ...

Germany-based recycling equipment and technology vendors Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim are collaborating with India-based preform and plastic packaging manufacturer Magpet Polymer Pvt. Ltd. to build ...